Selected publications

Books

• The Art of Domestic Life: Family Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century England (New Haven and London: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art for Yale University Press, 2006).
• Advancing with the Army: Medicine, the Professions, and Social Mobility in the British Isles, 1790-1850, co-authored with M. Ackroyd, L. Brockliss, M. Moss and J. Stevenson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).

Chapters in books

• '"Peculiarly happy at taking Likenesses": Zoffany and British Portraiture' and 11 catalogue entries in Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed, ed. M. Postle (New Haven: Yale Center for British art; London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2011)
• "The Crown and Glory of a Woman": Female Chastity in Eighteenth-Century British Art', Remapping British Art and Architecture, 1500-2000, eds. D. Arnold, D. Peters Corbett and M. Johnson. (forthcoming, Blackwells, 2011).
• ‘Patrilineal Portraiture? Gender and Genealogy in the Eighteenth-Century Country House', Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830, eds. J. Styles and A. Vickery (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2006) 323-52.
• Three new and eleven revised entries for the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Article on Sarah Moulton for the online version of the New DNB (2005).

Journal articles

• 'The Evidence of the Conversation Piece: Thomas Bardwell's The Broke and Bowes Families (1740)', Cultural and Social History (Dec 2010) 7 (4): 493-510
• ''A Death in the Family': Posthumous Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century England', Art History (Feb 2010) 33(1): 74-97
• 'From the Interior to Interiority: The Conversation Piece in Georgian England', Journal of Design History (2007) 20: 291-307.
• '"A Sort of Sex in Souls": Gender and the Marital Portrait in Eighteenth-Century England', British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Spring 2004) 27: 199-120.
• ‘Reynolds's portrait of Mrs Theresa Parker: A Case Study in Context', The British Art Journal (Autumn 2003) 4(3): 80-6.
• ‘Sensibility and Genealogy in the Eighteenth-Century Family Portrait: The Collection at Kedleston Hall', The Historical Journal, (2003) 46(3): 533-60.

Review articles

• The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons, National Portrait Gallery, 2011-12, in The Burlington Magazine, CLIV, 1307 (2012)
• Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Acquisition of Genius, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, 2010, in The Burlington Magazine, CLII, 1284 (2010).
• The Intimate Portrait: Drawings, Miniatures and Pastels from Ramsay to Lawrence, Scottish National Portrait Gallery and British Museum, 2009, in Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 33, 1 (2010).
• The Conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life, Queen's Gallery, Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh and Buckingham Palace, London, 2009-10, in The Burlington Magazine, CLI, 1279 (2009).
• M. Craske, The Silent Rhetoric of the Body: A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720-1770 (New Haven and London, 2007), in Oxford Art Journal, 31, 3 (2008).
• Hogarth, exhibition at Tate Britain, Musee du Louvre and CaixaForum, Barcelona, 2007, in British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 30(3) (2007).
• A. Rosenthal, Angelica Kauffman: Art and Sensibility (New Haven and London, 2006) in Visual Culture in Britain, 8, 2 (2007).
• L. Perry, History's Beauties: Women and the National Portrait Gallery, 1856-1900 (Aldershot, 2006), in Journal of the History of Collections 18(2) (2006).
• Snodin, M. and J. Styles Design and the Decorative Arts: Britain, 1500-1900 (London, 2001) in The Historical Journal, 46 (2003).
• M. Rosenthal, The Art of Thomas Gainsborough: 'A Little Business for the Eye' (New Haven and London, 1999) in The Journal of Art and Design Education 19(3) (2000).
• M. Berg and H. Clifford, Consumers and Luxury: Consumer Culture in Europe, 1650-1850 (Manchester, 1999), in The Journal of Art and Design Education 19(1) (2000).

Selected conference papers and presentations

• 'Love and Marriage in Eighteenth-Century English Portraiture', Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, Feb 2012
• '"The small Domestic & conversation style": David Allan and Scottish Portraiture in the late eighteenth century', Institute of Art History, University of Glasgow, Jan 2012
• '"The Picture was my Stage": The Theatre of the Conversation Piece', conference entitled The First Actresses: Gender, Representation and Performance, National Portrait Gallery, Nov 2011.
• '"Affections of the Absent": Widows and Widowers in Eighteenth-Century Portraiture', workshop entitled Paradigms of Marriage and Beyond, University of Kent, Nov 2011
• 'The Topography of the Conversation Piece: A Walk around Wanstead', History of Art department research seminar, University of Oxford, Oct 2011
• 'The 'New Child'?: Portraits of Children in Eighteenth-Century England', conference entitled Visual Representations of Children and Childhood, Oxford University Centre for the History of Childhood, July 2011
• 'The Topography of the Conversation Piece: A Walk around Wanstead', conference entitled Placing Faces: The Portrait and the Country House in the Long Eighteenth Century, University of York, June 2011
• 'Portraying the Lifecycle and the Lifecycle of the Portrait in Eighteenth-Century Britain', conference entitled Telling Stories about Families in the Long Eighteenth Century, Oxford Brookes, May 2010
• 'Zoffany and the Conversation Piece', symposium on Johan Zoffany at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Nov 2009
• '"The small Domestic & conversation style": David Allan and Scottish Portraiture in the late Eighteenth Century', Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850, Faculty of History, University of Oxford, Nov 2009
• 'Fabricating the Domestic Interior?: The Conversation Piece in Georgian England', Histories of the Home Subject Specialist Network annual conference, June 2009
• '"Habits and Dress of the Times": The Conversation Piece in Georgian Britain', Leverhulme Lecture, National Portrait Gallery, Nov 2008
• '“Small Portraits”, “Histories” and “Fancyes”: The Conversation Piece in Georgian England', History of Art department seminar, University of Sussex, Oct 2008
• '“Small Portraits”, “Histories” and “Fancyes”: The Conversation Piece in Georgian England', History of Art department seminar, UCL, Oct 2008
• 'Regional Collections and the Eighteenth-Century Conversation Piece', Understanding British Portraits seminar, National Portrait Gallery, Oct 2008
• ‘Pieces of Conversation: Narrative in Eighteenth-Century Portraiture’, National Portrait Gallery research seminar, June 2008
• ‘The Evidence of the Conversation Piece’, conference entitled The Pictorial Turn in History, University of Roehampton, Apr 2008
• ‘Pieces of Conversation: Narrative in Eighteenth-Century Portraiture’, symposium entitled Narrative: Frame, Sequence and Fragment, Birkbeck College, Feb 2008
• 'A Death in the Family: The Quick and the Dead in Eighteenth-Century Portraiture', conference entitled Making Faces: New Approaches to Georgian Portraiture, University of York, Nov 2006
• ‘Patrilineal Portraiture? Gender and Genealogy in the Eighteenth-Century Country House', Modern Cultural History Seminar, University of Cambridge, May 2006
• ‘From the Interior to Interiority: The Conversation Piece in Eighteenth-Century England’, conference entitled The Georgian Interior, V&A, Nov 2005
• ‘Patrilineal Portraiture? Gender and Genealogy in the Eighteenth-Century Country House’, annual conference of the Association of Art Historians, University of Bristol, Apr 2005
• ‘Paternity and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Britain’, The Art of Innocence exhibition symposium, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, Apr 2005
• ‘Patrilineal Portraiture? Gender and Genealogy in the Eighteenth-Century Country House’, symposium at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Jan 2005
• ‘Children, Games and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Art’, History of Childhood Colloquium, University of Oxford, Jun 2004
• ‘Patrilineal Portraiture? Gender and Genealogy in the Eighteenth-Century Country House’, conference entitled Gender, Taste and Material Culture in Britain and North America in the Long Eighteenth Century, The Huntington, San Marino, C.A., May 2004
• ‘“Russell’s Comfort”: Lady Rachel Russell and Family History at Woburn’, conference entitled Women and the British Country House, 1650-1900, University of York (May 2004).
• ‘“So Fine a Series of Portraits”: Displaying the Family in the English Country House’, annual conference of the Association of Art Historians, University of Nottingham (Apr 2004).
• 'Displaying Dynasty: The Family Portrait Collection in Eighteenth-Century England', History of Art department seminar, University of Nottingham (Feb 2004).